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Windows 7: help is this a hardware problem?

After two days of trying to check for bad sectors, I gave up to go ahead and try the CD extended scan. I'm fixing to cry because I've changed the the setting to boot from CD because I could not boot it with F12. I cannot get past the starting windows screen, it's taking forever. I desperately powered off and started again and I still either get a black screen with a mouse pointer after starting windows or just a starting windows screen. It's asking me to do a recommended start up repair , but I know that would take 2 years. My HDD light stays lit and never blinks. I'm scared to keep powering off by the power button. In the past whenever start up repair was my only option, it would never fix itself. That's why I had to reset to original settings and about 4 times, and the 4th led me to this mess I'm in now...frustrated.

Since you got good performance out of puppy Linux we can set aside the memory and mobo for now, focus on the HD which seems to be balking a bit at testing with HD Diagnostics and Disk Check. Both need to be run and passed.

I downloaded and burned at the slowest speed the ISO file for Seagate. Is that what you were asking which HD scan? I can't get it to boot. I chaged the boot sequence and it still tries to start Windows which will not get anywhere and I went ahead and tried start up repair and it wants a Windows installation disc which I do not have. I changed the boot sequence back to default and it still will never get anywhere past the starting windows or a black screen with a responsive mouse cursor. When I clicked on start windows repair, my windows boot manger states that boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible.
I was getting good response from Puppy at first til I started accessing and copying files then it was downhill from there with all the same lagging symptoms. Im talking like 12 hours to move maybe 50 pictures. I was only able to navigate very smoothly through files when I wasn't doing anything in the background, which was hit and miss while under Windows.

I did get through a regular disc check through windows before I attempted the sector check. I did them separately so not to try too much at once and it said it fixed a few errors. But now it seems to be doing worse.

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